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USMCFLYR
So true.
But this applies to so many professions where certain actions have an effect on people. Even with the example above, train engineers/conductors, cruise ship captains, heck, even taxi drivers all have responsibility for transporting people from point A to point B safely. What are they worth. Does it matter the number of people carried?
In other professions - what is an architect who designs bridges that people travel over daily or skyscrapers where people work worth. The engineers or mechanics who work on those airplanes or engines?
Like you said - philosophical discussions where there probably isn't even a right answer
Your practical answer seem to be correct though. What you can bargain.
USMCFLYR
I’m not denying that other professions have a safety responsibility/role to the public, however, your comparison, in my opinion, is “apples to oranges” as the saying goes. I’m looking at the entire package that goes into becoming a pilot such as education, training, continued evaluation and testing, long-term health effects (physical effects, time zone changes, backside of the clock, etc.), desirable traits and qualities, the list goes on and on. As you already know pilots also undergo a periodic health screening process that has the potential to terminate their career. Comparing a pilots worth to other professions, or vice-versa, is not relevant because the variables (all of them) are different.
-jc23